Usually means: Category or class with characteristics.
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We found 77 dictionaries that define the word type:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. type: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -type, type: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. type: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -type, type: Collins English Dictionary
  5. type: Vocabulary.com
  6. Type: Wordnik
  7. type: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. -type, type: Wiktionary
  9. -type, type: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. -type, type: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. type: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Type, -type, type: Dictionary.com
  13. type (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. type: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. TYPE (DOS command), Type (Unix), Type (acting), Type (biology), Type (botany), Type (command), Type (computer programming), Type (computer science), Type (designation), Type (mathematics), Type (metaphysics), Type (model theory), Type (song), Type (theology), Type (type theory), Type: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Type, -type: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. type: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. type: Rhymezone
  19. type, type (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. type: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Type: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. type: Free Dictionary
  23. type: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. type: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. type: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. type: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. type: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. type, -type: Wordnik

Art (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. -type, type: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Coin Collecting Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Type: Numismatic Dictionary
  6. -type: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  7. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Type: bizterms.net
  4. Type: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. Type: Harvey Financial
  6. Type: Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms
  7. type: Legal dictionary
  8. Type: Financial dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  10. Type: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. type: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. Type: Hacking Lexicon
  4. Type (computer science), type: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. -type, type: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. TYPE: Acronym Finder
  3. type: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Type: Easton Bible

Science (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. type: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Type: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  4. Type: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  5. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  6. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  7. Type: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  8. type, type, type, type, type, type: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  9. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  10. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)
  11. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. type: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. TYPE: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Type: Glossary of Cheese Terms
  5. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  6. type: Coin Collecting

(Note: See typeable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.
noun:  An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
noun:  An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
noun:  (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
noun:  (uncountable) Such types collectively, or a set of type of one font or size.
noun:  (chiefly uncountable) Text printed with such type, or imitating its characteristics.
noun:  (taxonomy) Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
noun:  Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
noun:  (medicine) A blood group.
noun:  (corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
noun:  (theology) An event or person that prefigures or foreshadows a later event - commonly an Old Testament event linked to Christian times.
noun:  (computing theory) A tag attached to variables and values used in determining which kinds of value can be used in which situations; a data type.
noun:  (fine arts) The original object, or class of objects, scene, face, or conception, which becomes the subject of a copy; especially, the design on the face of a medal or a coin.
noun:  (chemistry) A simple compound, used as a mode or pattern to which other compounds are conveniently regarded as being related, and from which they may be actually or theoretically derived.
noun:  (mathematics) A part of the partition of the object domain of a logical theory (which due to the existence of such partition, would be called a typed theory). (Note: this corresponds to the notion of "data type" in computing theory.)
noun:  (obsolete except in the above special senses) A symbol, emblem, or example of something.
verb:  To put text on paper using a typewriter.
verb:  To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard.
verb:  To determine the blood type of.
verb:  To represent by a type, model, or symbol beforehand; to prefigure.
verb:  To furnish an expression or copy of; to represent; to typify.
verb:  To categorize into types.
adverb:  (African-American Vernacular, slang, rare) Very, extremely.

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